title: Being a woman researcher in an Anatolian village.
abstract: This essay represents the first editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field". In this memoir, the author details the evolvement and intellectual progression of her research focusing on wild food plant consumption within a remote community in the high steppes of Central Anatolia during the early Nineties. The author conveys a human learning journey as a woman and an ethnobiologist, reflecting on the methodological bottlenecks and solutions during her first ethnographic experience in the field.
authors.affiliation: Orhangazi Cad,, Kumbasi Yolu no: 109, İznik/Bursa, Turkey. etnofertug@gmail.com
authors.forename: Füsun
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ertuğ
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D012108:Research Personnel; D014421:Turkey